Fedora FC6 network install problems with eVGA nForce 680i, motherboard

[Lonni J Friedman]

At the very least it should hopefully explain why the DHCP lease
failure occurred.  Also, are you running anything other than FC on
this system?

On 11/15/06, David Siu <davidsiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, when I get a chance, I'll list the message that it comes up
> with. I didn't see anything entirely obvious as to what the cause of
> the problem was. Thanks for trying to help!
>
> David
>
>
> On 11/15/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/15/06, spmirowski <spmirowski at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > From: "David Siu" <davidsiu at gmail.com>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ugg... I dread downloading 6 iso files... I would have been able to
> > > > get Fedora installed much faster through a network install... My
> > > > concern now however is will my network card work at all in FC6... I
> > > > would hate to have to download all the cds, burn them all, install it,
> > > > only to find out that FC6 doesn't work with the network card. Does
> > > > anyone know what significant changes there were that would affect this
> > > > part of the installation process?
> > > >
> > > > David
> > > Have you checked the FC6 release notes?
> > >
> > > If you do end up downloading a new copy of FC6, I recommend going with
> > > a Fedora Unity respin, since it would have more up-to-date packages.
> >
> > There's nothing in the release notes related to this problem.  I'd
> > still be curious what exactly the system is doing when the dhcp
> > request fails.  Can you switch over to the virt console and see what
> > the messages look like?


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